Five people have applied for the vacant Langley mayor position and the procedure to appoint one has been changed to treat applicants from the city council more like the others.
The next mayor of Langley will be chosen from among at least four candidates, two of whom presently sit on the five-member City Council.
A sizable landslide at Possession Point Wednesday afternoon destroyed one summer home and damaged another.
South Whidbey’s high bluffs are saturated with water due to the extremely wet year we just experienced.
A sizable landslide at Possession Point Wednesday afternoon destroyed one summer home and damaged another.
A sizable landslide at Possession Point Wednesday afternoon destroyed one summer home and damaged another.
A two-bedroom cabin owned by Bellingham residents Morgan and Laurie Bartlett was knocked off its foundation by tons of mud and trees. Its twisted remains sat precariously on a ledge high above a bulkhead, but the bathroom portion was gone. A medicine cabinet below the concrete bulkhead spilled out its contents, and on the beach further toward the water was the paneling, drywall and other debris that once comprised the bathroom.
Neighbors said they had just spent $30,000 fixing it up and that insurance isn’t available in such a slide-prone area.
The geoduck (pronounced gooey-duck) has a funny name and its appearance often elicits embarrassed laughter, but Washington’s biggest clam means big money to the Department of Natural Resources and fine eating, particularly for wealthy devotees in China.
There was a party going on at the Port of South Whidbey meeting Tuesday night, even it it was only in the head of Port President Curt Gordon.
Lloyd Furman, mayor of Langley from 1994 to 2004, died suddenly at his home Monday, Jan. 6.
Larry Kwarsick resigned from office effective Jan. 7 but his case will live on in the courts.
Langley Mayor Larry Kwarsick emailed a brief letter of resignation to the city of Langley Sunday, with the effective date of his resignation today, Jan. 7.
Kwarsick has been caught up in a legal tangle since admitting to falsifying a city document when he was planning director in 2011. It had to do with a relative’s land use permit.
A young driver escaped injury Thursday afternoon when the pickup she was driving hit an icy patch on Saratoga Road, sending it off the roadway into a deep ravine.
A two-man committee was selected Thursday night to further study purchase of the abandoned Holmes Harbor Golf Course by the Holmes Harbor Sewer District.
